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Lifting his leg to pee.

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#1 ·
I thought this is odd, because I hadn't expected it for at least months down road if not years. But 3 month old boy is lifting his leg about 25-30% of the time now when he pees. Been doing since just before his 3 month mark. Isn't this kind of early?
 
#2 ·
I'm not sure, but I will be interested to see where this thread goes. Knuckles is 3 months old today and there is no sign of any lifting of the leg. He still pees like a little girl :)

I read in some post on here somewhere that a male lifting his leg is a learned behavior. What if he only has a female to learn from? Will he always pee like a female?
 
#7 ·
My boy is 1 1/2 now and is doing it now. But mainly on walks but in the yard still pees like a girl. But if another male dog comes in the yard then he will lift his leg. But when I take him on walks he lifts his leg every time. My favorite is when he lifts his foot off the ground to pee like he is to lazy to lift it all the way up.
 
#12 ·
Dogs really are different in their marking behaviour. Gryff was lifting his leg to pee too from the time he was a pup, but it was just peeing. Territory marking - as in sniffing where other dogs have peed and peeing over that spot - started at nine months. Most dogs usually start territory marking around 12 to 18 months old, but it varies.

I have a dominant female that started lifting her leg and territory marking at about a year old.
 
#13 ·
Dogs really are different in their marking behaviour. Gryff was lifting his leg to pee too from the time he was a pup, but it was just peeing. Territory marking - as in sniffing where other dogs have peed and peeing over that spot - started at nine months. Most dogs usually start territory marking around 12 to 18 months old, but it varies.

I have a dominant female that started lifting her leg and territory marking at about a year old.
My parents have a female who lifts her leg as well.
 
#15 ·
Interesting.... we have a 9 yr old male, I've only seen him lift his leg twice in his life, both times were walks in a new area. Other than that he 'pees like a girl' . Our other male is 7 months and I have never seen him lift his leg.
 
#16 ·
My male started lifting his leg at about 1 1/2 years. Sometimes, he'll still pee like a girl.

At the very back of our pasture we have a wild game trail. I've used the game cam and found coyotes use that path to cut across our pasture. Hondo will spend as long as I let him back there 'marking' every inch. He'll even poop (one small poop at a time) along the trail.
 
#18 ·
Kaiser was 11 weeks when he first lifted his leg, haven't seen him do it again since then. He also manages to always step in his own pee no matter what way and how quickly I move him after he's done.

It'll come when it has to (or in your case, its ok if its early). I know my friends lab puppy had lift off when it was 12weeks as well.
 
#20 ·
Conor was around 10-11 months old when he started lifting his leg. I read somewhere that when very young puppies do it it reflects a dominant personality - don't know if this is true or not..........
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